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Confirmed by the band on Annie Mac's show on BBC Radio 1 on July 3rd, 2017, Muse will be doing an intimate at Shepherds Bush Empire. The show is in aid of The Passage, London’s largest voluntary sector resource centre for homeless and vulnerable people. The last time Muse played on this venue was in 2013.

The show is by request, ticket holders will be able to choose their top ten tracks and all votes submitted will be collated and used to make the setlist for the night.

Presale for fan club will be available on July 5th at 9am and general sale on July 7th also at 9am.

Voting

Since the show is by request, ticket holders are able to vote for what songs will be on the setlist. Since the announcements, multple Reddit threads and Facebook groups were made to help choose which songs. A well-informed and constructed thread was made on Reddit about how to vote carefully for rare songs.

On July 11th, 2017, ticket holders received emails about the gig and its vote. Each ticket holder received a link to Set the Set, a website where you can vote for songs for the setlist, and a unique code to validate your choices. You could vote for songs in a pre-determined list of 62 songs on the website, at first. Some songs were surprisingly omitted from this list, like Uno, Blackout or Apocalypse Please, who were played recently in 2015-2016. This was due to an error by Set The Set when uploading full list of available songs [4], this error also caused a side-effect where it would automatically add New Kind Of Kick to your vote list when you would pick Easily. This was fixed the next day on July 12th. Some songs that were never played live or haven't been played for more than 10 years, are on this list, like Invincible, Showbiz, Do We Need This, Nature_1, Map of Your Head, Easily, Glorious or Eternally Missed.

After fixing and adding the missing songs, the list has 83 songs up for voting.

Song Choices

Bold are songs that were never played live. Italic are songs that haven't been played since 2012. Both bold and italic are songs that haven't been played since 2006.

Uprising

Psycho

Supermassive Black Hole

Starlight

Feeling Good

Madness

Knights Of Cydonia

Hysteria

Time Is Running Out

Dead Inside

Mercy

Plug In Baby

Dig Down

New Kind of Kick

Undisclosed Desires

Reapers

Panic Station

Supremacy

The Handler

Resistance

Stockholm Syndrome

New Born

Map Of The Problematique

Defector

Survival

Revolt

Follow Me

Bliss

Butterflies and Hurricanes

Muscle Museum

Aftermath

Animals

Assassin

Invincible

Sing For Absolution

The 2nd Law: Isolated System

Citizen Erased

Unintended

The Globalist

Sunburn

Unnatural Selection

Take a Bow

Guiding Light

The 2nd Law: Unsustainable

United States Of Eurasia

Exo-Politics

Hyper Music

Sign O' The Times

Fury

The Groove

Easily

Eternally Missed

Micro Cuts

Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)

Map Of Your Head

Nature_1

Yes Please

Agitated

Showbiz

Futurism

Dead Star

Do We Need This?

Falling Down

Space Dementia

Cave

Apocalypse Please

Screenager

Falling Away With You

Uno

Darkshines

Megalomania

The Small Print

Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist

Soldier's Poem

Ruled By Secrecy

City Of Delusion

Blackout

Glorious

Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)

Save Me

Endlessly

Liquid State

Forced In

Stats

Bold are songs that were never played live. Italic are songs that haven't been played since 2012. Both bold and italic are songs that haven't been played since 2006.

Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever), Sign o' the Times, New Kind of Kick, Dig Down

Man of Mystery, America, Back in Black, Lithium, Lies

Practice Session

Aug 18, 2017- Muse posted pictures and video of their practice sessions for SBE. Included in one of the images was a blurry setlist. The Italian Musers Do It Better Facebook Page group used Photoshop on the list to come up with some of the songs they believe would be played. All of them were part of the setlist.

While Matt did not reveal the voting results for outside of TOP10, after Futurism was played, he did say that the song "came number 12th". Additionally Matt implied that Eternally Missed came 11th place when replying to a tweet asking about it.

Song information

Easily was played for the first time ever. Matt commented that he loved the track, and said that it only missed being on Black Holes & Revelations due to being written too late.

Glorious was played for the first time since 2005. Dom introduced the track by saying he's been trying to get Matt to play it "for 7 years".

Showbiz was played for the first time since 2006. Matt stated that the track won the voting "by a mile" and that it "might be back", implying it could be played at later shows.

Sing for Absolution was played for the first time since 2007. Matt said that he was surprised that the song was in the top 10.

Assassin opened a show for the first time since 2007.

Yes Please was an abbreviated version - first verse and chorus only.

Muscle Museum, Showbiz, Fury, and Futurism were all played half a step down.

New Born was played for the first time in 2 years, and was notably faster than usual.

No songs were played that were released after 2006.

Speech

When

Who

What

Before Assassin

Bellamy

"Yes, London! Welcome to an evening of deep cuts."

After Dead Star

"Yes, thank you!"

Before Muscle Museum

"Thank you very much, thank you. This next song is 2nd oldest song we are playing tonight."

Before Easily

"This next song actually we have never played live before and we actually never played it together as a band. Because when we recorded it, it was bass and drums first, and then I did the vocals and the guitar a bit later. So this is the first time we have ever played together. Of course we rehearsed it, fucked it up a few times, but, yeah, let's see where we go. It's also one of my favorite songs!"

After Easily

"Yes! I don't know how it didn't get to the album, I don't know how that didn't make it to the album. I think, was that just after Black Holes or was it Absolution? Can't remember. When did we do this song? I can't remember. I think we did it on the road, on the road somewhere. I know it was, Black Holes just had come out and we were a bit late to get it on the album. Anyway, love that song."

Before Glorious

Howard

"How's it going, Shepherd's Bush? It's a real pleasure to come and play for you guys tonight in this awesome venue again, I guess we played in this venue four years ago, it was so good we had to come back. As you probably know all the proceeds for tonight are going to the charity The Passage which is amazing charity doing wonderful job, helping homeless people in London and keeping them sheltered, finding food and stuff like that. So yeah, everything is going to them tonight, so thank you for coming! We gonna play one of mine favorite songs we have been trying to get Matt play for about seven years or so. We are gonna give it a shot, see what happens."

After Glorious

Bellamy

"Thank you very much. Cheers!"

After Butterflies & Hurricanes

"Thank you very much, thank you!"

Before Citizen Erased

"Live on Instagram, it's currently live!" "So we bet with our manager a thousand bucks we knew that you would pick this song, okay? So he is doing a grand for the charity."

Before Showbiz

"So this song won by a mile on the voting. Okay, okay we are gonna play it. Last gig was I think, I think was, what, 2006 or something? I think it was 2006."

After Showbiz

"Oh man! It's a killer, it's a killer! That song might be back, it might be back now."

After Hysteria

"Thank you!"

Before Sing For Absolution

"This next song was a big surprise for me that it made the TOP 10. Here we go."

During Sing For Absolution

"Oh sorry, sorry. It's 'There's nowhere left to hide'!"

Before Plug In Baby

"Thank you very much, thank you! So this next song is actually the oldest song we are playing tonight, it's actually from our 2nd album, people don't realize we actually wrote this when I was about 18, 19, the verse and chorus, but then the riff came later."

During Plug In Baby

"Sing it, Bush!"

After Futurism

"That came number 12th."

During Knights of Cydonia

"Come on, London!"

End of Knights of Cydonia

"Thank you very much, thank you!"

After Knights of Cydonia

"Thank you everyone, we love you so much, we are so happy to be back here. You guys are fucking awesome! Thanks for coming to see us, thanks for raising money for The Passage. See some of you at Reading and Leeds."

After Knights of Cydonia

Howard

"Thanks so much Shepherd's Bush. That was a lot of fun, thanks for coming, I am sure we are gonna do it again. Cheers. Good to see you guys. Take care."